All posts tagged Hedi Slimane

Now that Francois Hollande‘s amour and Catherine Deneuve share the benches at your Saint Laurent shows with Jann Wenner‘s two hot boys Theo and Noah in their black and red leather pants (respectively) and bottle of champagne, alongside The Kills‘ lead singer Allison Mosshart, you qualify as the best front row in Paris Fashion Week.

You also attract an enviable number of fellow designers who come to see you spin your magic: Azzedine Alaia was there to see your Fall 2014 collection tonight (and he’s more of a Commes Des Garcons guy) as were those two partiers Peter Dundas and Jean Paul Gaultier, who rocked along with the rest of us to an original song written and recorded for Saint Laurent by Clementine Creevy, who was so recently just a teenaged girl and is now with the ultra in-the-know LA band Cherry Glazerr. Read More »

After more than a year at Saint Laurent, the outrage at Hedi Slimane’s approach to the label is dying down. It’s not a panacea.

Those babydoll dresses again for spring 2014? Meh. The lips-print dress, a little Rolling Stones and a little Kenzo? Mmhmm. The piles of tulle on a one-shouldered dress have been better done by Viktor & Rolf. But give me those ice-edged Hedi Slimane skinny pants, the narrow lapel jackets, the versions of biker jackets that range from louche to Hells Angels-chic: oohh my!

This is what casual Friday on Wall Street should be: leather lapels, skinny ties, perfectly tailored gray suits with cropped pants, and princess heels in black leather with studs. Mr. Slimane makes adroit allusions to Yves Saint Laurent, the founder of the house, such as his version of the famous Le Smoking tuxedo this season, done as a skinny Slimane jumpsuit. Read More »

PARIS — It wasn’t quite what they expected, though all the signs pointed in the obvious direction. Hedi is back, and so is Rive Gauche.

Hedi Slimane tonight debuted his first runway collection for the label now called Saint Laurent. The Grand Palais, where the most-ballyhooed show of Paris was held, was draped in massive YSL logos. Slimane offered an homage to the best of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent in his Rive Gauche days, with his own edge thrown in. The suede safari dress, the slouchy maxi and wide-brimmed hats were reverential nods to Yves, while the skinny pants were Slimane. One designer’s reverence for the other was palpable. Read More »

PARIS — It’s Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal. There are fashion shows all over this city, but the game on center court is between Raf Simons at Christian Dior and Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent Paris – each debuting their pret-a-porter line for their respective house.

Simons got first serve on Friday, and sounded emotional about his new gig when he said, in his show notes, that he would “explore themes of liberation both historical to the house and personal to himself.” Read More »

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